Vines (centre, pictured in 2002) developed an obsession with the newsreader

Jill Dando’s murder in 1999 prompted Ms Maitlis to call police and tell them about her stalker.

When he was jailed last year, Judge Peter Ross said: “You are under what appears to me to be an unshakeable obsession underpinned by the complete delusion as to the relationship that exists or existed between you and Ms Maitlis.

“That is abundantly clear in the extraordinary letters you were writing to her.

“You know in truth in 25 years, that that woman wants nothing to do with you. You have plagued her life. You have plagued the lives of her family.”

Vines was remanded in custody to be sentenced on December 19.

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